With a great multi-touch interface; 3.7-inch TFT (480×854 pixels) capacitive touch screen; slidable QWERTY keyboard; Cortex A8 600 MHz processor; 256 MB RAM, 5MP camera with dual-LED flash, Geo-tagging and autofocus; Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n); 3G; Bluetooth; A-GPS; multitasking support; accelerometer; proximity sensor; stereo speakers; 3.5mm jack; and the Android 2.1 OS, the just launched Motorola Milestone is a feature-rich phone that goes up against the Xperia X10, BlackBerry Storm, iPhone 3GS, and other smart touch screen phones in India.
Priced at Rs. 32,990, the Motorola Milestone weighs just 165 grams, and has lots of pre-installed software and applications on it, including Motorala’s proprietary Motonav voice-guided navigation software (with street-level support for over 401 cities in India), a digital compass, Google Search/Maps/Talk/Gmail, Android Marketplace, music player (supporting MP3/eAAC /WAV/WMA9), video player (supporting MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9), Adobe Flash Player 10.1, photo viewer/editor, and many more. It has a standby battery life of 350 hours, with a talk time of 6.5 hours.
Other great features of this phone include: interchangeable batteries, image stabilisation, CrystalTalk Plus for great voice clarity, and the fact that it can take pictures in near perfect dark. The phone also has a contact management system that synchronises with your Facebook, MS Office, Google contacts in one place. Another great feature is the fact that the phone will offer its great GPS facilities (like Motonav navigation) without the need of a network provider or SIM card.
The Motorola Milestone has been around in America and other places in the world since November 2009, and offered those customers who had bought the phone in the intervening period an upgrade to Android 2.1 over the air.